Told Quotes

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be.

There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.